Loyalty oath

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elements of academic freedom

...the United States has generally been a bastion of academic freedom. This history occasionally has been marred, however. From the 1930s, state legislatures sometimes required teachers to take “loyalty” oaths in order to prevent them from engaging in left-wing (and particularly communist) political activities. During the anticommunist hysteria of the 1950s, the use of
loyalty oaths...